History of the tank

History of the tank - chronicle of armored combat vehicles. Article “History of the tank” in English Wikipedia has 75 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 86 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.33 points.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “History of the tank” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of the tank”, its content was written by 340 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 809 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 382 times in English Wikipedia and cited 723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #980 in February 2004
• Global: #2865 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #58508 in September 2016
• Global: #61257 in November 2022

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		85.8735
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克历史		77.9338
3	English (en) History of the tank		74.9641
4	Greek (el) Ιστορία των αρμάτων		73.3403
5	Czech (cs) Dějiny tanku		64.684
6	Esperanto (eo) Historio de tankoj		60.2186
7	Slovak (sk) Dejiny tankov		54.1792
8	Malay (ms) Sejarah kereta kebal		54.0503
9	Ukrainian (uk) Передісторія танка		52.6589
10	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הטנקים		49.3372

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "History of the tank" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the tank		1 947 184
2	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		511 400
3	Russian (ru) История танков		476 369
4	Spanish (es) Historia del carro de combate		457 769
5	Indonesian (id) Sejarah tank		159 173
6	Slovak (sk) Dejiny tankov		97 603
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xe tăng		51 825
8	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הטנקים		48 649
9	Czech (cs) Dějiny tanku		28 704
10	Finnish (fi) Panssarivaunujen historia		27 370

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "History of the tank" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the tank		7 471
2	Russian (ru) История танков		1 467
3	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		1 092
4	Chinese (zh) 坦克历史		452
5	Spanish (es) Historia del carro de combate		315
6	Indonesian (id) Sejarah tank		217
7	Czech (cs) Dějiny tanku		139
8	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הטנקים		92
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xe tăng		85
10	Slovak (sk) Dejiny tankov		80

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "History of the tank" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of the tank		340
2	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		105
3	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הטנקים		54
4	Russian (ru) История танков		47
5	Spanish (es) Historia del carro de combate		46
6	Slovak (sk) Dejiny tankov		36
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xe tăng		33
8	Esperanto (eo) Historio de tankoj		27
9	Norwegian (no) Stridsvognens historie		26
10	Greek (el) Ιστορία των αρμάτων		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "History of the tank" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of the tank		3
2	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		2
3	Chinese (zh) 坦克历史		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) История на танка		0
5	Catalan (ca) Història del tanc		0
6	Czech (cs) Dějiny tanku		0
7	Greek (el) Ιστορία των αρμάτων		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Historio de tankoj		0
9	Spanish (es) Historia del carro de combate		0
10	Finnish (fi) Panssarivaunujen historia		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "History of the tank" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) History of the tank		382
2	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử xe tăng		52
3	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הטנקים		46
4	Chinese (zh) 坦克历史		45
5	French (fr) Histoire du char d'assaut		40
6	Malay (ms) Sejarah kereta kebal		39
7	Catalan (ca) Història del tanc		33
8	Croatian (hr) Povijest tenka		27
9	Czech (cs) Dějiny tanku		22
10	Spanish (es) Historia del carro de combate		10

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian История на танка
ca	Catalan Història del tanc
cs	Czech Dějiny tanku
el	Greek Ιστορία των αρμάτων
en	English History of the tank
eo	Esperanto Historio de tankoj
es	Spanish Historia del carro de combate
fi	Finnish Panssarivaunujen historia
fr	French Histoire du char d'assaut
he	Hebrew היסטוריה של הטנקים
hr	Croatian Povijest tenka
hy	Armenian Տանկերի պատմություն
id	Indonesian Sejarah tank
ms	Malay Sejarah kereta kebal
no	Norwegian Stridsvognens historie
ru	Russian История танков
sk	Slovak Dejiny tankov
uk	Ukrainian Передісторія танка
uz	Uzbek Tanklar tarixi
vi	Vietnamese Lịch sử xe tăng
zh	Chinese 坦克历史

Best Rank

English: #58508 09.2016

Global: #61257 11.2022

Best Rank

English: #980 02.2004

Global: #2865 04.2003

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